Opinion page editor Rick Holmes and other writers blog about national politics and issues. Holmes & Co. is a Blog for Independent Minds, a place for a free-flowing discussion of policy, news and opinion. This blog is the online cousin of the Opinion
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Opinion page editor Rick Holmes and other writers blog about national politics and issues. Holmes & Co. is a Blog for Independent Minds, a place for a free-flowing discussion of policy, news and opinion. This blog is the online cousin of the Opinion section of the MetroWest Daily News in Framingham, Mass. As such, our focus starts there and spreads to include Massachusetts, the nation and the world. Since successful blogs create communities of readers and writers, we hope the \x34& Co.\x34 will also come to include you.

Rob and others have been singing in remarkable harmony the tune that the Affordable Care Act is “forcing” employers to turn full-time jobs into part-time jobs. That’s a hypothesis that ought to be able to be tested, right?

So Matt Yglesias did, providing the convincing chart above (with his own annotations). It seems pretty obvious it was the recession, not Obamacare, that made all those part-time workers.